Shelter - HSC

Texts

• Shelter, Hot Topics 57 (PDF 1608kb)
  Legal Information Access Centre (LIAC), 2006
• Law Handbook 10th ed, Redfern Legal Centre Publishing, 2007. See Chapter 29 Housing
• No home, no justice?: the legal needs of homeless people in NSW by Forell et al, Law and Justice Foundation, 2005
• Homelessness, Issues in Society 243, 2006. (Get it : SL)
• Tenants Fact Sheets
• Consumer, Trader and Tenancy Tribunal - Tenancy division
• Tenancy handbook Office of Fair Trading, 2007.
• Affordable housing in NSW: past to present by John Wilkinson NSW Parliamentary Library Research Service No 14/05
• NSW Parliamentary Library Research Papers This provides links to the full text of background and briefing papers on shelter.

Media - newspapers, magazines and journals

• AGISPlus via Informit. A database that includes the fulltext of magazine articles. You need to register as a client of the State Library.
  • Suggested search terms: housing, homelessness.
  • Search instructions.
• Proquest ANZ Newsstand. A database of fulltext newspaper articles. You need to register as a client of the State Library.
  • Suggested search terms: housing, homelessness.
  • Search instructions.
• Infocus. You can purchase articles from the State Library, or ask your school or local library to order them. Tip: Select Legal Studies as HSC Subject. Search key words such as housing and homelessness. (Get it : SL)
• Parity. An excellent magazine relating to homelessness. Selected articles online at www.chp.org.au/parity/back_issues.shtml. Also held at the State Library in full. (Get it : SL)

Websites

• Tenants' Union website
• NSW Office of Fair Trading provides information for tenants and home owners
• Australian Housing & Urban Research Institute
• Shelter NSW

Major legislation

• Residential Tenancies Act 1987 (NSW)
• Links to other legislation

Finding cases

• Consumer Trader and Tenancy Tribunal decisions

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